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How to Control Facebook Ad Tracking

8/5/2014 2:40PM

You can take a few basic steps to significantly limit how Facebook targets ads. That doesn’t mean no ads, but it will mean less eerily specific ones. WSJ Personal Tech Columnist Geoffrey A. Fowler shows you how.

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... I ... he knows that Facebook is what we do on the social network that shows that it's ... but no this is what we do everywhere else too ... the websites you visit and apps using your phone to target ads to you ... the good news is that this is also starting to be a little more transparent ... about why exactly see certain doubts ... this new schools still you can tell what kinds of ads you see the future ... they don't make it very easy to ... put thought into my Facebook an awesome ... you can sell ads on Facebook ... but you can see a sort of naming specific topics that you ... do you see this tiny icon in the right corner of an ad ... if you select ... why am I seen this could get an explanation of what Facebook things made this at work for you ... if you don't like to add to Getting click view and manager at efforts is ... no C Facebook's entire dossier on ... all the things I think you're interested ... so what you like and you want respect ... you can remove items from the list or add new ones if you really want ... but if you remove them all as don't go away just get the generic ones based on gender ... or age and your location ... now ... about Facebook following you on the way ... so what is your browser these cookies you can se but from tracking what you do ... you can stop it and other companies from using that information to deliver at its ... the fastest way to opt out of many I'd tractors and once this use this website ... there's Facebook which you can put individually ... for a few select all here he is on the other companies on the list too ... the annoying part is that you need to go through this process for every web browser on every computer in every phone breathing space ... in the clear even if they're not able to use this info to say he adds ... they simply steel track you for other purposes like secure ... you may also be surprised by how much your phone reveals about beauty companies like Facebook which you can stop this from knowing your phone's location ... and limited from getting other information like that he sees it acted as a ... to stop the spread from tracking your location ... on an I phone go to settings ... then ... privacy ... then location services ... by Facebook unless it ... can turn up ... to stop this from trucking to use other apps ... go to settings then privacy than advertising and then turn on ... when the ad tracking ... yes this is a lot to do just to maintain some control of your data ... that is a good reminder that the stock isn't really free ... it's an exchange you should give away any more personal information in half ...